It is possible -- I did it -- to develop a taste for rancid butter.
I'm not sure, but I think this may be common in China.
Gene Coyle
On Mar 20, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
On 3/20/07, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Cognitive therapy (probably) works _precisely_ by really eliminating
those [bad] memories. The concept of repression is grounded in
what is no
longer a tenable conception of how memory works. Clearly the
neurological 'discovery' is potentially dangerous under a repressive
social order -- but it does offer some possibility of actually
_curing_
depression. Controlling/'curing' depression depends on changing one's
thinking patterns (which would have to include 'deleting' some
memories,
whether by therapy, drugs, or other method.
cognitive therapy, as I understand it, does not eliminate memories as
much as teaching the patient to reframe them. So instead of being
depressed by the rancid butter, I could decide that it was silly to
buy it in the first place and that the whole thing was a lark.
Supposedly, anti-depressant psycho-meds can reinforce this process of
reframing.
--
Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank
Lloyd Wright
